The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Yogendra Mohan Sengupta Vs. Union of India & Others dated 05/09/2017 regarding construction activity in 17 green belts of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Counsel appearing for the state of Himachal Pradesh has informed the National Green Tribunal that they are planning …
This reference manual provides in-depth knowledge on the techniques, methodologies and best practices for using geospatial information in support of decision making for disaster risk management for specific hazards. Space-based information can significantly enhance disaster emergency response and preparedness and producing and using such information is critical for evidence-based decisionmaking. …
One person has been killed and ten others are missing in a village in Sironko district following a series of landslides that have hit eastern Uganda, the police said Thursday. In the last two weeks, landslides have been reported in Bududa district in the Mount Elgon area as well as …
More than 1,000 people have died from the mudslide and flooding that hit Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, nearly two weeks ago, according to a local leader and a minister. The government had earlier put the death toll for the August 14 mudslide at 450 dead, while rescuers and aid groups …
Bududa — A landslide has destroyed three villages in Bulucheke Sub-County of Bududa District in the Mount Elgon region. According to district official, Houses have been knocked down, livestock buried and at least 200 people from forty families displaced. The affected villages are Marobo and Shikhuyu in Buluchecke Sub-county and …
SHIMLA: Stating that India is facing a challenge of sustaining its rapid economic growth while dealing with threat of climate change globally, chief minister Vibhadra Singh said that a comprehensive strategy was required along-with adaptation to the climate change besides enhancing the ecological sustainability. "Apart from floods and disasters, we …
DHARAMSHALA: Environmental changes are happening around the world due to unscientific methods used nowadays. The recent landslide in Kotrupi of this hill state which has claimed lives of about 47 people was also the result of the same. This was said by the scientists who had gathered at the Central …
ZURICH (Reuters) - Rescue crews are searching for eight people including Germans, Austrians and Swiss who have been missing for more than a day after a landslide struck a remote Swiss mountain valley near the Italian border, police said on Thursday. Authorities evacuated around 100 people from the village of …
The about 5,000 persons displaced in deadly mudslides and floods that hit Sierra Leone a week ago, will be given temporary shelter in 48 hours according to head of the disaster response outfit. According to local media sources, Ismael Tarawallie, who heads the Office of National Security, the world has …
Rescue workers have unearthed 499 dead bodies since last week’s devastating landslide near the Sierra Leone capital Freetown, the city’s chief coroner told Reuters on Sunday. One of Africa’s worst flooding-related disasters in years occurred when the side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed on Monday after heavy rain, burying parts …
At least 200 people have been killed in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a landslide swept through a fishing village on the banks of Lake Albert in Ituri province, officials said. Abdallah Pene Mbaka, governor of Ituri province, told AP news agency on Saturday that the estimate is based …
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Forty people have been killed in a landslide in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Pacifique Keta, the vice governor of Ituri province, said on Thursday. Seismic and volcanic activity have been responsible for a number of landslides in the region in recent years.
Burials began on Thursday for 300 people killed in Sierra Leone's mudslide while the search for hundreds of others missing.. In a ceremony attended by President Ernest Bai Koroma, wooden coffins were lowered into hurriedly dug graves at a cemetery in Waterloo, as the country tried to begin recovering from …
Facing the threat of disease, Sierra Leone on Wednesday began burying hundreds of victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of the capital, one of Africa's worst flood disasters in living memory. Hundreds of Freetown residents queued to identify relatives crushed by the mud on Monday …
Rescue workers have uncovered nearly 400 bodies so far from a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, its chief coroner Seneh Dumbuya told Reuters on Tuesday. He said that he expected at least 500 bodies to be uncovered as the search continues. A national emergency has since …
Flood situation continued to remain grim in several Arunachal districts with reports of disruption of surface communication pouring in from various parts of the State. Remote Anjaw district remained cut off from rest of the State for the past seven days, as the main road to the district from Lohit …
Heavy monsoon rains in Nepal, Bangladesh and India have killed more than 200 people in the last week, officials said on Tuesday, as rescue workers rushed to help those stranded by floodwaters. In Nepal, the death toll from flash floods and landslides rose to 115, with 38 people missing. Relief …
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Rescue workers have recovered nearly 400 bodies from a mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the chief coroner said on Tuesday, as morgues struggled to find space for all the dead. Dozens of houses were buried when a mountainside collapsed in the town of …
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Torrential rain battered Nepal on Sunday, causing widespread flooding and landslides and raising the death toll from three days of severe weather to 49 people, according to officials. The toll could go higher as three dozen people were reported missing. Another 17 were injured. Slideshow (3 Images) …
Mbale — One person has been confirmed dead and two seriously injured in Mbale landslides on Sunday. Peace Sandra Khainza, a 14-year-old pupil of Hilltop Primary School was hit by a rock as she walked from the garden in the hilly Bukhatoko village, Bubetsye Parish, Wanale Sub-County in Mbale District. …
